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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will completely pull all his super PAC’s money out of New Hampshire, effectively sabotaging Republican Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc. The McConnell-backed Senate Leadership Fund will pull all its ads off television starting October 25, Shane Goldmacher of the News York Times reported Friday afternoon. The decision will rip $5.6 million away from Gen. Bolduc’s candidacy and greatly help incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH).

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti joined a “global coalition of mayors” at a summit on climate change this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, burning fossil fuels on an international flight rather than attending remotely and attending to pressing issues at home.

During a portion of an interview with MSNBC released on Friday, President Joe Biden responded to House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) promise that if Republicans take control of Congress, there won’t be a “blank check” for Ukraine and people won’t support a blank check by saying that he “can understand somebody having that view who’s uninformed,” and that while a lot of money is being spent in Ukraine, “it’s so much more than the Ukrainians. It’s about NATO. It’s about Western Europe. It’s about making sure that Putin is not able to succeed in the way that he...

Meet the FIRST-DEGREE murderers John Fetterman says are “just like” Morgan Freeman. "Just like" your grandfather. Like your grandmother.

New research looks set to answer a long-standing question about the status of a mysterious tomb-like structure uncovered in Cork Harbour many years ago. Archaeologists have been split as to whether it was prehistoric or a more recent 19th-century “folly”. However, Connemara-based archaeologist Michael Gibbons now says there is conclusive evidence the Carraig á Mhaistin stone structure at Rostellan on the eastern shore of Cork Harbour is a megalithic dolmen. Mr Gibbons has also discovered a previously unrecognised cairn close to the dolmen which would have been concealed by rising sea levels, and which he is reporting to the National...

One of China’s most promising chip designers has already navigated through export restrictions implemented by US President Joe Biden’s administration and concluded it would be able to continue tapping Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) to produce its advanced silicon. Shanghai-based Biren Intelligent Technology (壁仞科技) develops artificial intelligence (AI) chips and is considered a promising domestic contender to compete with graphics chips from Nvidia Corp, which has said it can no longer sell its most advanced AI products in China. The US measures were designed to limit China’s development of technology that could be used in aid of its military,...

A viral TikTok star and transgender activist visited President Joe Biden in the Oval Office to discuss her transition and transgender issues in the US. Dylan Mulvaney, who documents on the app her 'firsts' as a woman in a series she calls 'days of girlhood,' revealed that she and members of NowThis News were visiting the White House for an interview that will be made public on Sunday.

Dallas, Texas, man was arrested Thursday for allegedly shooting a 21-year-old woman to death for beating him at a game of basketball on October 3, 2022. FOX 4 described the game as a “heated” competition in T.G. Terry Park, in which 21-year-old Asia Womack beat 31-year-old Cameron Hogg. MSN.com reported that Hogg allegedly drove his brother and children home after the loss, then drove back to find Womack. After finding her he allegedly shot her five times, killing her. A warrant for Hogg was issued on October 11, and he was arrested on October 20. NBC 5 spoke with Womack’s...

Archbishop Viganò: The Vatican must withdraw its support of the ‘disastrous’ COVID shotsThe results that are now emerging from the official data published in all the countries that adopted the mass vaccine campaign are incontestably disastrous.(LifeSiteNews) – Your Eminence,Last year, on October 23, 2021, I wrote a letter to the president of the United States Bishops’ Conference, which was also sent to you, in which I expressed – as I have already done publicly – my very strong reservations on various extremely controversial aspects regarding the moral legitimacy of the use of experimental gene serums produced using mRNA technology.In that...

A Democratic political group unveiled a new ad seeking to pump young voters by highlighting President Biden's student debt forgiveness program, but audiences are mocking it. The group, Build Back Together, is using the ad in a "six-figure" campaign. It kicks off with a clip of MSNBC host Shepard Smith stating that the White House is "kicking off its efforts to forgive student loan debt." The screen then appears to glitch, with Smith repeating the word "debt" over and over before a beat kicks in and memes start spraying across the scene. "NEW AD: Dark Brandon strikes again!" read a...

“‘Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live’” (John 5:25). Jesus begins this emphatic, unarguable declaration with the seemingly paradoxical statement “an hour is coming and now is.” The hour of the believers’ resurrection “now is” in the sense that when they “were dead in [their] trespasses and sins . . . [God] made [them] alive together with Christ, and raised [them] up with Him” (Eph. 2:1, 5–6). Yet the hour is still “coming” in the sense...

Suppose one of my sons is caught in a bear trap in the woods and lies hurt and bleeding, crying for help. As his father, do I stop to analyze the quality of his faith? Do I ask myself the question, “Does my son have enough faith in me to trust that I’ll come to his rescue?” A thousand times no! I would run to my boy’s side, no questions asked, because I am motivated by a father’s love for a hurting child. His faith doesn’t motivate me. It is not anything he does at all; it is simply my...

SAN FRANCISCO — Every night in San Francisco, more than 4,000 people sleep on the streets without any form of shelter. In the same city, tens of thousands of homes are vacant without a single person sleeping inside. “It is devastating to realize that for every person sleeping on the streets tonight, there are 14 vacant homes in our city,” county supervisor Dean Preston said. ... A new report released Thursday by the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst Office revealed that a staggering 61,473 homes were vacant in San Francisco in 2021. The number of vacant homes skyrocketed from 40,000...

From Hardaway v. Nigrelli, decided yesterday by Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. (N.D.N.Y.):Eight days after the Supreme Court struck down New York's unconstitutional "proper cause" requirement for conceal-carry licenses, the State responded with even more restrictive legislation, barring all conceal-carry license holders from vast swaths of the State. The complaint and motion in this case focus solely on one aspect of the new legislation, namely, the portion making it a felony for such a license holder to possess a firearm at "any place of worship or religious observation."Ample Supreme Court precedent addressing the individual's right to keep and bear arms—from...

News that Ben Sasse would likely be leaving the U.S. Senate to become president of the University of Florida has aroused varied commentary—most of it critical of Sasse. But one take has probably been underrated—Sasse’s exodus is merely the latest example of how Trump has vanquished an entire generation of once-promising young conservative stars from politics. Think about it. When Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015, the Republican Party was about to field what was then seen as an impressive and diverse array of future young conservative stars. The names included Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Marco Rubio,...

Robert Kiyosaki: "I just couldn't stomach politics. But I'm here today to endorse a friend, and a candidate in Kari Lake. Because we need leaders. And I've watched Kari Lake evolve from a journalist to a leader, and God-All-Mighty, ladies and gentlemen, we need leaders." Video: https://mobile.twitter.com/KariLake/status/1583564680831725569?cxt=HHwWgsCj_fzr-fkrAAAA

Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary TimeLuke 12:54–59,br> Friends, the famous call of the Vatican II fathers to “read the signs of the times” is grounded in Jesus’ exhortation in the Gospel for today. Followers of Jesus are meant to look at the world with clear eyes, to see what is happening, to be attentive. But this attention is of a particular type. It is not the attention of the scientist or the philosopher or the politician—though it can include those. It is an attention to the things of God.I have often argued that many of us today are still enthralled to...

While appearing with Neil Cavuto to discuss the 2024 election and other matters, Jeb Bush stated Florida Governor Ron DeSantis “will be a formidable candidate in 2024.” {Direct Rumble Link} Jeb!, the failed 2016 GOPe club insider, is famous for representing the more acceptable side of the Republican party apparatus, and like former House Speaker Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush has high praise for the Florida governor describing himself as a “Ron DeSantis fan.” Bush told Cavuto in the interview Thursday that if DeSantis runs, “he will be a competitive contender for a number of reasons.” Adding, “the main reason I...

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Bring a warm blanket, lie back and watch the remains of Halley's Comet burn up in our atmosphere. The Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight tonight (Oct. 21), making this an excellent time to get outside and see some fireballs streak through the atmosphere. The viewing conditions for this year's Orionid meteor shower are favorable, as the moon will be in a waning crescent phase and will be only 17% illuminated. The Orionids are considered to be one of the most reliable meteor showers after the Geminids and Perseids, and are known to produce dozens of meteors per hour, making this...